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Hub Ventures Announces Unique Collaboration to Accelerate Human Safety Innovation

Better Ventures

Through this collaboration, Hub Ventures will identify up to four human safety focused startups to participate in its upcoming Spring 2012 cohort, an intensive 12-week business accelerator program. LVD is providing the targeted investment capital and business development assistance. “We

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Climate Intelligence: The Digital Fabric for Climate Action

Better Ventures

Thus far we have made investments towards reducing the climate impact of our food, industrial production, and energy systems, and we are eager to make more. Business Intelligence is the use of historical and current data to provide actionable insights to drive immediate and future business decisions. Why Climate Intelligence?

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‘Narratives of Delay’: How the Animal Pharma Industry Resists Moves to Curb the Overuse of Antibiotics on Farms 

DeSmogBlog

Many of these arguments have been around for decades,” said Cóilín Nunan, a policy and scientific adviser to Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics, a coalition of health, sustainable farming, and civil society organisations. drug makers Elanco Animal Health Inc., Phibro Animal Health Corp., and Zoetis Inc. and Zoetis Inc.,

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California Supreme Court Clarifies Standard of Review for EIRs and Requirements for Air Quality Impact Analyses

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

The California Supreme Court held that the EIR did not adequately discuss potential health consequences that could be caused by a significant increase in pollutants resulting from the development project. Background for Appeal. Construction would occur in five phases over 10 years.

Health 40
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California Supreme Court Clarifies Standard of Review for EIRs and Requirements for Air Quality Impact Analyses

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

The California Supreme Court held that the EIR did not adequately discuss potential health consequences that could be caused by a significant increase in pollutants resulting from the development project. Background for Appeal. Construction would occur in five phases over 10 years.

Health 40
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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

DeSmogBlog

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, has not told residents about the health risks they face. TCEQ documents obtained by Public Health Watch show that some of those early readings were double the level Texas considered safe at the time. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice

GreenBiz

Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. Right now, over in North, you can't name 10 Black businesses — they ain't there," she said. "If